Grillette imaginario: Reflexiones sobre la influenca de las representaciones simbólicas en la naturalización de la violencia cacelaria.

Abstract

The study aims to be an approach to the reality of the prison, especially interesting for criminology, with a look from the symbolic, trying to penetrate the prison walls with an extensive bibliographic review. The problem of prison violence is the center of this investigation, from which the influence of symbolic representations on dehumanizing treatment and the violation of the human rights of people in the context of confinement will be investigated. There are many studies that emphasize the failure of imprisonment as a “rehabilitative” penalty, because in most cases, it is there where the differences of the stigmas that entered them are marked even more. We will stop there, in the passage through the prison, in the treatment that the inmates receive, and the reasons for the social rejection of the inmates, analyzing the symbolic component that lies behind this naturalized violence.